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Geographic referencing adds critical context to data. It helps users quickly and easily determine whether a dataset pertains to their specific area of interest, and in the event that it does, empowers users by immediately allowing them to visualize that data, perhaps coupled with addtional datasets for informing context. Both Geospatial One Stop and Data.gov are citizen centric initiatives. Migrating and consolidating
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Rather than organizing the data according to organizational silo's (eg. USDA, HHS, etc) recommend developing an interface that allows for multiple "views" of the same data. Taking Apple's iPhoto software as an example - the single photo dataset can be viewed according to events, photos, faces, or places. This allows the same dataset to be sliced and diced in multiple ways - unearthing interesting connections along the
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